Natalie Merchant's hit 1995 song 'Wonder' now opens Wonder: Introducing Natalie Merchant, a new collection on streaming services. The set include singles and fan favorites, beginning with 'Wonder' from her debut solo album, Tigerlily, and closing with the 2015 recording of the song for Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings. A new film Wonder, based on RJ Palacio's 2012 best-selling novel inspired by Merchant's song, opens November 17. Watch an excerpt from the documentary Paradise Is There about the song here. The Natalie Merchant Collection—a deluxe ten-CD box set compiled by Merchant—is out now. It's ten discs, including all eight of her solo studio albums from the past three decades; Butterfly, a new studio set featuring new songs and reinterpreted selections from her catalog, arranged for string quartet; and Rarities, a collection of rare and previously unreleased tracks.
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The package includes a 100-page lyric book and pictorial history of her solo career. Mojo gives the set five stars, calling it “magnificent. A definitive and absorbing celebration of an artist with a singular voice and vision.”. Natalie Merchant's self-titled album is her sixth solo work and her first collection of entirely original songs in 13 years. Benny Benassi Illusion Midi. Essential Intrapartum Newborn Care Pdf. Merchant describes the self-produced release as informed 'by decades of experience and keen observation,' dealing with issues of 'damage, love gained and lost, regret, denial, surrender, greed, destructiveness, defeat, and occasional triumph.' The AP calls it a 'rich musical tapestry.' The Telegraph lauds her 'quietly magnificent' voice.
Merchant 'is in terrific form,' says the Times of London. 'It is Merchant’s mature, versatile voice that steals the show.'
After rising to fame at the helm of the popular folk-rock band 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant enjoyed even greater success as a solo artist during the mid-'90s. Her literate, socially conscious songs established her among the preeminent women in pop music, while her solo debut -- 1995's Tigerlily -- helped pave the way for a number of female performers in a pre-Lilith Fair market. She continued releasing albums well into the 2000s, often examining specific genres or subjects, although Tigerlily remained her biggest-selling record. Born October 26, 1963, in Jamestown, New York, Merchant joined 10,000 Maniacs at the age of 17 and became the band's driving artistic force. After a pair of successful independent releases, they signed to Elektra in 1985 and briefly became one of the most popular acts in alternative rock, shooting into the Top 40 with 1987's In My Tribe and charting even higher with their follow-up effort, Blind Man's Zoo. Merchant's desire to launch a solo career increased and the band's reputation continued to grow. By the time the group sat down to record 1992's Our Time in Eden, she gave her bandmates two years' notice.
Following the release of MTV Unplugged in 1994, she publicly announced she was leaving the group's ranks. Merchant made her solo debut with 1995's Tigerlily, a self-produced album that debuted at number 13 and scored a Top Ten single with 'Carnival.'